ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation to postpone for a year a key provision of New York’s recently enacted reforms for nonprofits that would prohibit employees from serving also as chairmen. The law, intended to prevent conflicts of ...

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday gave the military one year to make progress on an epidemic of sexual assault or face potential tougher reforms, hours after Congress sent a sweeping defense bill for his signature that cracks down ...

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Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature have proposed a series of reforms designed to increase oversight to local development corporations. The measures were to be brought up during a full Legislature meeting scheduled Tuesday. The reforms include: legislative consent before ...

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Revamping the state’s bail system and expanding the use of cameras to all court proceedings are two new initiatives Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman will be putting before the Legislature this year. He introduced both Tuesday in his annual State of ...

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ALBANY — The Paterson administration has proposed reforming New York’s system for housing juvenile offenders with a new oversight office and tighter restrictions on who can be incarcerated. The proposals come as two investigations continue ...

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